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Offline skypurr

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Making of my Harry Potter Movie photo
« on: October 04, 2016, 21:17:57 »
I don't have photobucket or any fancy photo editing software, in fact I'm struggling with a new windows 10 computer.  I have no fancy way of setting up my photos, so how they turn out is sometimes more luck than anything else. 

Here's how I set up my recent Harry Potter photo.

I started with a box, open at the front and top, covered in white material, and two daylight lamps. (when I took this photo one of the bulbs had just gone!



I then built a small white steck wall as the barrier between platforms nine and ten,  but the signs didn't look right on the ornate hangers



So I found a wooden skewer in my kitchen drawer and balanced it across the top of the walls and hung the signs from that, I then cut it to size



The background looked a little plain so I found a google image of a station



It wasn't wide enough so I cut it in half and placed one half at each side of the steck wall and put a piece of dark card for the floor



I then added 2 seats, some passengers with luggage and Ron, Harry and their trunks - it took a little while to arrange them - the owl kept overbalancing!



Then I set the camera to macro, crouched down to take the photo and just hoped for the best .. I was pleasantly surprised by the result...



Just a step by step description but hope it explains how it was done.
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Re: Making of my Harry Potter Movie photo
« Reply #1 on: October 04, 2016, 22:56:54 »
That's great Elaine. The background really integrated well and the passing people gave it the extra depth to make it work even better. Thanks for the how to on this one.

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Re: Making of my Harry Potter Movie photo
« Reply #2 on: October 05, 2016, 13:00:07 »
Thank you for the detailed description!

Fantastic result - and I don't even LIKE Harry Potter!

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Re: Making of my Harry Potter Movie photo
« Reply #3 on: October 05, 2016, 13:49:22 »
Great piece of work, Elaine, and a very helpful "how to".

Windows 10 is a pain.  I've managed to remove or disable pretty well all the bits I don't want/don't like/annoy me.

I understand that there is something called Classic Shell which makes it look just like Windows 7
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Re: Making of my Harry Potter Movie photo
« Reply #4 on: October 05, 2016, 14:12:09 »
That is so interesting, how the photo was made.  I had very much wondered about how the background was done!
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Re: Making of my Harry Potter Movie photo
« Reply #5 on: October 05, 2016, 21:24:03 »
It looks great! Well done on the setup.
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Re: Making of my Harry Potter Movie photo
« Reply #6 on: October 06, 2016, 00:12:54 »
Nicely done!

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Re: Making of my Harry Potter Movie photo
« Reply #7 on: October 06, 2016, 04:07:52 »
Thanks for the how-to. Your photo is very cleverly done.
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Re: Making of my Harry Potter Movie photo
« Reply #8 on: October 06, 2016, 13:09:41 »
Very interesting, some great ways of achieving the final result without a lot of fuss- like using the skewer to support the platform number signs and cutting the background photo in half to make it big enough! And a brilliant result! Well done skypurr.
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Re: Making of my Harry Potter Movie photo
« Reply #9 on: October 07, 2016, 18:07:07 »
I love Harry Potter! Great attention to detail!